ASTRA SPACE OPERATIONS, INC. — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: S3.02
ASTRA SPACE OPERATIONS, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Amount
- $124,552
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- S3.02
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2014-06-20 → 2014-12-19
Description
While small satellites continue to show immense promise for high-capability and low-cost missions, they remain limited by post-deployment propulsion for a variety of activities like precision maneuvering, orbit change and controlled re-entry / recovery. Furthermore, any on-board propulsion system capable of providing sufficiently high delta-V is likely to impose constraints on handling, storage, operations and safety that may limit consideration as a secondary payload. Ventions proposes to overcome these limitations by developing a compact, light-weight and low-cost 3U cubesat propulsion system that uses non-toxic propellants to provide approximately 125m/sec of delta-V within a 1kg and 100mm x 100mm x 100mm mass and size budget.